Yearly Archives: 2010

Emails We Never Finished Reading Dept:

This genuinely appeared in my inbox this evening:

Professor Froomkin:

Thanks for taking the time to read this email. My name is Jeff Stolarcyk and I'm contacting you to let you know about [redacted], a new online store that specializes in t-shirts designed for the modern conservative or Tea Party supporter. We're trying to get the word out about the site by asking well-regarded conservative bloggers like yourself to participate in our affiliate program. You might have already seen banners for the store on sites like AntiObama.net.

[and it went on]

I guess I should be glad that the Tea Party types are so good at recognizing their fellows…

Posted in Politics: Tinfoil | 4 Comments

Bad & Good

Bad

Good

Good and Bad

There is a new dubstep mix of the War of the Worlds but it is slashdotted.

Not webby, but bad

Posted in Linkorama | 4 Comments

I Write Like Me

Kevin Drum reports that “the internet toy du jour is a site that supposedly analyzes your writing and tells you which famous writer you most resemble.

So I have to try it. First try, a random blog post, produced this horror:

I write like
Isaac Asimov

(Asimov: good ideas, bad writing.)

Second try, the first three pages from a paper I'm writing produced something even worse:

I write like
H. P. Lovecraft

OK, it's a paper about ICANN, and thus something of a horror show, but even so…

Fortunately, Kevin Drum thinks there's nothing to it.

Posted in Meaningless Personality Quizzes | 3 Comments

15 is the New 50?

According to this Really Cheerful Post, Why time appears to speed up with age, time really does seem to pass more quickly the older you are. Thus, from a subjective perspective, half your life is over at age ten.

And by age 50, as the years go by faster and faster, you have experienced 89% of your subjective life-time.

Happy Bastille Day.

Posted in Science/Medicine | 2 Comments

Ode to Zork

I'm apparently the last person in the world to discover this, but nerdcore hip hopper MC Frontalot did an ode to Zork, It Is Pitch Dark

What's Zork, you ask? Well, grasshopper, get Zork I, Zork II, and Zork III (There are common installation instructions). But don't plan to get much else done for a while.

Posted in Kultcha | 5 Comments

Why You Can’t Believe the History Channel

Highly Implausible Plots.

Via Early Days of a Better Nation (Scottish science fiction giant Ken MacLeod)

Posted in Completely Different | Comments Off on Why You Can’t Believe the History Channel